G Southgate says he has no immediate plans to get back into football and could potentially look at positions outside the sport he stood down as England manager after defeat in the Euro 2024 final and he's linked with a number of roles including at Manchester City I've got lots of opportunities I'm very open-minded to what's next that might be in football that might be outside of football I'm just going to take some time uh re refresh recharge and go from there no I think at the moment people know that um uh I I need to get get some energy back I'm intent on enjoying my life I'm not going to rush into anything um I want to make sure that I make good decisions and as I say there's there's lots of different experiences that I'm enjoying a bit like today uh got some Charities I want to support which are very important to me um but also there's there's as I said opportunities outside of football as well that I'm also quite interested in well Southgate was speaking at a charity event in London today he says that he has no regrets about his time as England manager or his decision to stand down I had an incredible 8-year uh Journey with the team uh it was an absolute privilege to be manager of my country um work with brilliant players uh fantastic staff so yeah we wanted to do that final piece we we achieved so much across that period and to have finished it by winning the final would have been Perfection um but it wasn't to be but I'm sure the team can now go on and be successful over the next two years I don't think you can have regrets um you know we made decisions that with the information we had at the time to try and produce a winning team we went to a first Final in 60 years we went to another final the first we've ever been to away from England um so we made huge huge progress of course as a professional you want to win and ultimately some people will judge you purely on that but we also had some incredible nights I think we've taken the team the the consistency we're ready to compete in every tournament and um you know I be I'm hugely proud of that progress as a leader you have to look at where you picked it up and where you leave it [Music]